Vienna 2014 | Workshop | Current Problems of Systems Theory
The BCSSS organised a small workshop for invited guests with Rainer E. Zimmermann on May 30, 2014. Start of the workshop (photo: Wolfgang Hofkirchner) Zimmermann stayed during spring term as Researcher in Residence with the Bertalanffy Center. In the workshop he provided an overview of the studies he carried out when being…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
“Measuring Organisational Efficiency” – new book release
The BCSSS published the fourth volume of its book series. Francisco Parra-Luna, Sociologist, Professor Emeritus at the Complutense University, Madrid, and Eva Kasparova, Senior Lecturer in Managerial Sociology at the University of Economics, Prague, edited a volume with several contributions to a highly contested topic: do the current instruments of…
Mario Bunge on “Quantum Physics” and on “Mind”
Mario Bunge, EMCSR keynote speaker and winner of the Ludwig von Bertalanffy Award in Complexity Thinking 2014, was invited to hold two additional talks during his stay in Vienna. Both events were co-organised by the BCSSS. Anton Zeilinger, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, invited Bunge to the Vienna branch of…
Palermo 2014 | Panel | Primordial Matter, Particles, and Stuff. On the Transition from Physics to Chemistry and Further On
Via Roma, Center of Palermo (photo: Thomas Zimmermann) What is the nature of matter? This question is still contested. Philosophers met in Palermo from the 10th to the 13th of April to discuss the latest state-of the-art. The conference had the title “Understanding Matter” and was hosted by the Department…
Understanding Matter
The Italian Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Filosofica held its first international conference in Palermo from April 10 to 13, 2014. About 100 speakers discussed philosophical problems of understanding matter. The Bertalanffy Center was represented with talks by José María Díaz Nafría, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Rainer Zimmermann. They took part…
Rainer E. Zimmermann Researcher in Residence
Rainer E. Zimmermann, member of the BCSSS Scientific Council, joins our current team in Vienna. Between April and June 2014 he is Researcher in Residence, working with us on different issues related to the project on the foundations of emergence.
Invitation to the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2014
The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science proudly presents the upcoming European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2014, 22-25 April 2014 in Vienna. It is the second time we are responsible for the co-production of the most distinguished systems organizations and communities in the world, in addition…
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